The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Rachel Toor, author of The Pig and I: How I Learned to Love Men (Almost) as Much as I Love My Pets, Admissions Confidential: An Insider’s Account of the Elite College Selection Process, and the newly released Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running.Toor teaches writing at Eastern Washington University, is a columnist for the Chronicle of Higher Education, and a senior writer for Running Times.
A couple of paragraphs from her entry:
Visit Rachel Toor's website.By my bed I have towering stacks. During daylight hours, I'm only allowed to read nonfiction that is work-related. So I'm going through Nicholas Lemann's history of the SAT, The Big Test, and also Jerome Karabel's The Chosen, about the history of admissions at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. This is because I was asked to write a chapter for a three-volume history of the business of higher education.
Then, before I go to sleep, I always read from a mystery (or other genre-ish) novel. At this moment it's an older Lee Child, from his Jack Reacher series. [read on]
Writers Read: Rachel Toor.
--Marshal Zeringue
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